Water requirements are projected to significantly increase by 2050 across various sectors including irrigation, domestic, industrial, and power usage, with total demand rising from 843 billion cubic meters to 1180 billion cubic meters.
"Now if you see there are two years which have been discussed in the RHP one is 2025 scenario ne is 2050 scenario. Now if I talk about irrigation you can see that 611 billion cubic meters is the requirement for water and which is expected to go to 807 billion cubic meters, now you can see that different figures are even given for domestic usage, for industrial usage, for power usage, for other usage and even if you check in totality the requirement is going to shoot up from 843 billion cubic meters to 1180 billion cubic meters."